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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Anonymous on March 10, 2009, 01:18:32 PM
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Betty Sembler will be inducted into the Florida Womens Hall of Fame on March 17, 2009 at the state capitol. This is an outrage! Here is the FWHF website and phone number. Call 'em and let 'em know whatcha think about it.
http://www.fcsw.net/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm (http://www.fcsw.net/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm)
(850) 414-3300
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I just called them and expressed my displeasure
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Protests?
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March 17th, 5 p.m., Capitol Courtyard, Tallahassee, Florida. Be there or be square.
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You will not get your permit for protest. That has already been taken care of. We will not let Mrs. Sembler be embarassed by drug users at her day at the captiol. Mrs. Sembler is an outstanding Floridian. If you show up with no permit, the capitol police will arrest you and all your protestors.
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You will not get your permit for protest. That has already been taken care of. We will not let Mrs. Sembler be embarassed by drug users at her day at the captiol. Mrs. Sembler is an outstanding Floridian. If you show up with no permit, the capitol police will arrest you and all your protestors.
Ok Betty.... You are such a sweet woman, the way you endorse abuse to troubled teens.... Why don't you go see Richard Bradbury and see if he will give you back your hubby's penis pump.
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Betty Sembler will be inducted into the Florida Womens Hall of Fame on March 17, 2009 at the state capitol. This is an outrage! Here is the FWHF website and phone number. Call 'em and let 'em know whatcha think about it.
http://www.fcsw.net/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm (http://www.fcsw.net/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm)
(850) 414-3300
any straight survivors want to call the hall of fame people? maybe they just dont know fully that this woman is a child rapist and murderera?
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Just got the permit....here is what it said
March 13, 2009
Mr. (my name)
(my address)
(the town I live in)
Dear Mr. x:
This is in reply to your request to use the Capitol Courtyard on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 for the time requested on your application to hold up signs during the Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. We would ask that you refrain from graphic photography and language of any kind.
I find no conflict with Administrative Rule 60H-6, Rules Governing the Use of State Buildings and grounds; therefore, this area is being made available to you as requested, subject to the following stipulations:
1. Utilities Requirements: If additional utilities (i.e., electricity, sound equipment, etc.) and/or structures of any nature are required, your organization or group shall be responsible for furnishing these items.
2. Damage to State Buildings or Grounds: The individual, organization or group using State Office Buildings or Grounds and squares contiguous thereto under the jurisdiction of the Department of Management Services shall hold the State harmless of any cost, liability, claim, or suit from damages resulting from their use thereof. It shall be the responsibility of the event facilitator to make necessary arrangements to protect all surfaces of the Capitol from damage during the delivery and or parking of any vehicles, trailers, and or materials being utilized on the surface. Any damage to the surfaces will be reimbursed by the user at the amount of repairs incurred.
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Clean Up: The individual, organization, or group using State Buildings and/or Grounds shall be responsible for the clean up of the premises when activities have been completed. Be advised that Chapter 89-73, Laws of Florida, authorizes a fine not to exceed $500 per day for failure to accomplish cleanup, repair and restoration within 15 days after the date the event is concluded.
Please have someone in your office coordinate this activity and facility requests with Bob McLaughlin at the Capitol Building, 850/487-1534. Security and access to the grounds should be coordinated with Lt. Jackson-Milton of FDLE/Capitol Police at 850/488-1790.
As a result of the recent threats to national security, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Division of Capitol Police has advised that all approved functions on State Property are subject to cancellation without prior notice. In such cases, the State of Florida, its agencies, employees, and agents, are not liable for any claims or expenses your organization may incur, or any third party associated with the event may incur, as a result of the cancellation of the work hereunder, including but not limited to, the cost to publicize the event, equipment rental fees and deposits, personnel costs, transportation, hotel accommodations, and the like.
If this office can be of further assistance to you, please call me at 850/413-9586.
Sincerely,
Sherrie K. Routt
Sherrie K. Routt, Administrative Assistant II
cc: Bob McLaughlin, Facility Manager
Lt. Allene Jackson-Milton, FDLE/Capitol Police
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You will not get your permit for protest. That has already been taken care of.
LOLs. Looks like somebody didn't get the message (re: above)... take that, y'old cunt!
We will not let Mrs. Sembler be embarassed by drug users at her day at the captiol. Mrs. Sembler is an outstanding Floridian. If you show up with no permit, the capitol police will arrest you and all your protestors.
Wow! Such outstanding respect for the first amendment!
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Just a personal request: can somebody with a decent digital camera get some good side-view shots of the old bitch and send em to psyborgue@mac.com . Extra bonus points if you can make the old bag angry and you get a nasty look.
Thanks in advance!
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Just a personal request: can somebody with a decent digital camera get some good side-view shots of the old bitch and send em to psyborgue@mac.com . Extra bonus points if you can make the old bag angry and you get a nasty look.
Thanks in advance!
I will do my best to film it....my video camera is busted, so it may be only film on my regular camera. I will also take still shots. ANd, yes, if I can make that bitch frown, then I'll try and get that pic as well
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and please please call the Florida Womens Hall of Fame and express your feelings about the award. I already did adn I'm will call again on Monday.
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and please please call the Florida Womens Hall of Fame and express your feelings about the award. I already did adn I'm will call again on Monday.
Give us the number.....
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and please please call the Florida Womens Hall of Fame and express your feelings about the award. I already did adn I'm will call again on Monday.
Give us the number.....
(850) 414-3300
It was posted above.
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The Huffington PostMarch 16, 2009
Maia Szalavitz
Posted January 16, 2009 | 01:16 PM (EST)
DEA, Florida 'Honor' Abusive Rehab Founder, Wife of Republican Financier
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Imagine if Wall Street were to honor Bernie Madoff for his skills as an investor ten years from now. The equivalent just happened in Florida, where Betty Sembler--co-founder of the abusive Straight, Inc. rehab chain--has been named by Governor Charlie Crist to its "Women's Hall of Fame" for her work fighting drugs. Last year, the DEA gave her a lifetime achievement award.
You may know Betty Sembler as wife of mall magnate Mel Sembler (another co-founder of Straight). He's the guy who headed the Scooter Libby Defense Fund, chaired finances for the Republicans during the first election of the second Bush, and served as ambassador to Italy, naming a building he acquired for the embassy for himself, in the process.
Straight--which at its peak had centers in seven states and claims to have treated 50,000 teens--has long been discredited for not only being ineffective, but harmful. Its policy of using confrontation, humiliation and physical punishment led to dozens of lawsuits, with plaintiffs winning hundreds of thousands of dollars for kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and emotional abuse.
Some of the more notorious cases involved kids being gagged with Kotex, being restrained by fellow students until they wet or even soiled themselves, and frequent use of sexually degrading and homophobic slurs. Many survivors have since been diagnosed with PTSD; there have also been numerous suicides.
Research conducted on confrontation has found that the more it is used, the more likely patients are to drink or take drugs and drop out of treatment.
"With all the available evidence-based treatments with proven effects, it's hard to understand a desire to support things that fly in the face of evidence," says addiction expert Tom McLellan, PhD, who is CEO of the Treatment Research Institute and a professor of psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.
Regarding Straight's tactics, McLellan says, "They're counterproductive. It's hard to even conceive of a therapeutic relationship based on confrontation, bullying and frankly, meanness."
Says William Miller, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of New Mexico and one of the leading experts on addiction treatment evaluation, "Obviously this recognition was not founded on evidence-based effectiveness in helping troubled teens."
If Straight was simply a historical relic, the refusal to accept its tarnished place in the history of addiction treatment might be tolerable. However, programs based on Straight like the Pathway Family Center in Detroit and AARC in Canada are still operating. While the worst physical excesses seem to have declined in some places, the emotional abuse of being constantly forced to focus on your flaws and bad behavior, remains.
And most teens who have been through these programs say that the psychological abuse is the worst part. Imagine being attacked every day as a "druggie" who needs to "surrender" and "admit powerlessness" and "character defects." Consider what it feels like to be told when you do discuss your actual drug use that you are lying, that you must have done more than that, that you are not telling the whole story. If you admit excessive use, you are attacked and further identified as an addict-- if you don't, you are bullied for being a liar.
Meanwhile, imagine having every aspect of your daily life under a microscope, with no privacy, even at night or in the bathroom. Everything you do or say is picked over by other teenagers whose only chance of going home and getting free is to pick up on your weaknesses and attack them, to prove that they are "working the program." And you have to attack others, too, if you want to "advance."
Consider, too, that your sex life is included in this examination--and that any desire for anyone else will be attacked as "fake" or "addictive," rather than seen as human and normal. Any relationships that you have had in the past will be tarred as "druggy"-- and you will be told that your first love never really cared for you, that anything that happened while you were "using" was about drugs and nothing more.
If you confess to being a virgin, you'll be ridiculed for that--but if you admit sexual activity, you'll be reviled as a slut. And if program staff make inappropriate advances, you'll be blamed for leading them on!
I wish I was making this stuff up--but unfortunately, I've personally listened to and read hundreds of accounts of similar and even worse treatment at Straight, Inc. and its descendants. And sadly, it's not limited to them: other "troubled teen" programs like the Family Foundation School, the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools and the Elan School are similarly based on "breaking" teenagers to fix them.
Honoring anyone involved with this kind of treatment who still fails to recognize its harms is a dishonor to us all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szal ... 58529.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/dea-florida-honor-abusive_b_158529.html)
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I called today, but could not get past the receptionist. Left a message for the ex director (although I don't think it was her answering machine) Told her of my displeasure and I'd see her tomorrow.
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check out www.orangetoiletnews.com (http://www.orangetoiletnews.com) for updates and pictures of the protest
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Reports are just starting to come in. Got a few pics up on the blog and I heard that Mike was on a live broadcast on Florida News Network in frame with Charlie Crist and Betty Sembler. Can anybody find a link for that?
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We gotta buy the dvd...I have the video director's card and will be contacting him in the near future for the dvd.
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Ok, I have 5 videos up at http://OrangeToiletNews.com/ (http://OrangeToiletNews.com/) Unfortunately, I don't have the codec to view them. Could some kind and knowledgeable soul please help me with the captions?
Thanks!
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Golleee... It's enough to put me into a diabetic coma... :eek:
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February 3, 2009 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E193 HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG
BETTY SEMBLER OF TREASURE ISLAND, FLORIDA
SELECTED FOR FLORIDA WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME
HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG
OF FLORIDA[/list]
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, Mrs. Betty Sembler, who I have the privilege to represent, has been named to the Florida Women's Hall of Fame for her lifetime of work to protect our nation's youth and adults from the scourge of drug abuse.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist selected her to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame in recognition of her three decade war on drugs. This is an effort she has taken on with great passion at the local, state and federal level. Betty has been a delegate to the White House Conference for a Drug-Free America and a member of the Governor's Drug Policy Task Force in Florida. She has served on the board of DARE Florida and DARE America, a national organization that provides anti-drug education to elementary and middle school students.
Betty also took her battle worldwide as she served as Vice Chairwoman of DARE International and fought against international drug legalization efforts around the globe while traveling with her husband Mel, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Australia and Italy.
Back home in Pinellas County, Betty was the Founder and President of Save Our Society from Drugs and the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc., nationally and internationally recognized non-profit organizations that promote sound drug policies, drug free workplaces, high school and college drug awareness and education programs, maintain one of the nation's largest libraries of anti-drug literature and reports, disseminate reliable scientific information, and help with the development of international drug free standards through The International Taskforce on Strategic Drug Policy and The Drug Prevention Network of the Americas.
In addition to her tireless work against drug abuse, Betty has also found time to serve on the Board of the Florida Holocaust Museum; the Florida Governor's Mansion Foundation; the Florida House in Washington, DC; and the University of Florida Brain Addiction Research Advisory Council.
Betty's non-stop work against drug abuse and in so many other philanthropic efforts have been honored nationally. In May 2005, she was named as an honorary Special Agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency and in March 2008, the Drug Enforcement Agency Museum Foundation presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also been recognized by the Houston Drug Free Business Initiative and in 2000 the Girl Scouts of the Suncoast Council named her a "Woman of Distinction."
Madam Speaker, I have known Betty Sembler for many years not only as a constituent but as a dear friend and I can tell you that no one works harder for our community, our state and our nation. She has fought the war against drugs block by block, state by state and nation by nation. She is called upon by medical, government and law enforcement leaders for her advice on combating illegal drugs and on drug education campaigns.
And she has represented the United States with great distinction as the First Lady to Ambassador Mel Sembler. She has been most gracious in forging special relationships with the leaders of some of our nation's greatest and most critical allies.
In all of these endeavors, Betty Sembler has served with a special spirit and energy that has amazed all who have come to know her. Her greatest passion though, is for her family. Mel, her husband of 56 years, and Betty are the proud parents of three children and 11 grandchildren. They are special Americans who have always kept their priorities in order—faith, family and country.
Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me today in thanking Betty Sembler for her lifelong service to our nation and in congratulating her on being inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
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